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2. Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Training
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3. Sparklines: Use tiny charts to show data trends
Course contents
Overview: Bring data to light
Lesson: Includes four instructional movies
Suggested practice tasks
Test
Quick Reference Card
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Course goals
Add sparklines to spreadsheet cells.
Determine which kind of sparkline to use.
Change sparkline styles.
Clear sparklines from spreadsheet cells.
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6. Introduction to sparklines
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Line sparklines
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Column sparklines
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Win/loss sparklines
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10. Suggestions for practice
Create and customize line sparklines.
Create and customize column sparklines.
Clear sparklines and create new ones.
Emphasize negative values with a horizontal axis.
Display an irregular time period.
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Online practice (requires Excel 2010)
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Test question 1
Sparklines change to reflect revised data. (Pick one answer.)
True.
False.
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Test question 1
Sparklines change to reflect revised data.
Answer:
True.
For example, if is included in your sparkline, and you revise it to , the sparkline will change to reflect the updated value.
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Test question 2
To delete sparklines, select the cells you want to clear the formatting from, and then press the Delete key on your keyboard. (Pick one answer.)
True.
False.
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Test question 2
To delete sparklines, select the cells you want to clear the formatting from, and then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
Answer:
False.
Pressing Delete won’t delete sparklines. On the Design tab, in the Group group, click Clear, and then select the appropriate option.
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Test question 3
You can change a line sparkline to a column sparkline, and vice versa. (Pick one answer.)
True.
False.
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Test question 3
You can change a line sparkline to a column sparkline, and vice versa.
Answer:
True.
On the Design tab, in the Type group, just click Line or Column to change the type of the sparkline.
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Test question 4
When you add another column after you create sparklines, the sparklines change with the new data. (Pick one answer.)
You can always do that.
This is true if your data is in an Excel table.
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Test question 4
When you add another column after you create sparklines, the sparklines change with the new data.
Answer:
This is true if your data is in an Excel table.
Sparklines will update to include the new data only if your data is in an Excel table. Then when you add another column, the sparklines will grow to include the new data.
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Quick Reference Card
For a summary of the tasks covered in this course, view the Quick Reference Card.
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